Railway-car.



" No- 835,413. PATENTED NOV.6, 1906.-

G. M. FUNK RAILWAY GAR. APPLIO'ATION FILED APE.14.1906.

WITNESSES A TTOHNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RAILWAY-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Nov. 6, 1e 06.

Application filed. April 14, 1906. Serial No. 311,672.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. FUNK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Centralia, in the county of Lewis and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Cars, of which the followingis a specification.

hly invention is an improvement in railway-cars, and especially in cars designed for carrying logs or other heavy timber or commodity which it is desired to bind upon the car; and the present invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view, and Fig. 2 is a side view, of a car-platform embodying the invention. F ig. 3 is a crosssection thereof on about line 3 3 of Fig. 2. 4 is a detail view of one of the stakes and the plates for securing the same, and Fig. 5 is a detail view of one of the hooks and its keeper.

By my invention I provide upon the bed A of a car transverse beams B, upon which the load may rest, and at the opposite sides of the car I provide stakes C and hooks D, the hooks D facing outwardly, so they may be utilized to secure the binder E, presently described. The binder devices E are preferably two in number, secured at their opposite ends to the stakes C at the same side of the car and extending thence across the car and engaging with the hooks D at the opposite sides of the car from the stakes to which the ends of the binder E are secured. The binders are also provided with turnbuckles at F, whereby their lengths may be adjusted slightly, and the binders are also provided be tween their ends with latches comprising hooks Eflengaging with eyes E and secured in closed position by links E, as will be understood from Fig. 1 of the drawings. When it is desired to release the load, it is only necessary to slip the link E off the end of the hook E and swing the hook to release it from engagement with the eye F4 as will be understood from Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings.

The hooks D (see Fig. 5) may be made removable by fitting their shanks D in keepers D at the sides of the car, so that when these .hooks and the stakes are removed the car may be utilized in any desired manner.

The binders E are shown as chains with lengths of rods interposed; but it will be understood that any other suitable form of binder, such as a wire cable or the like, might be utilized without departing from some of the broad principles of my invention,

a short length of cable being illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

The binders are secured at their ends to thestakes C, preferably by means of stirrups C, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and the stakes C are secured at their lower ends by means of an eye 0 on a vertically-elongated staple F on a plate F, which is secured removably in keepers G on a plate G, secured to the side of the car-bed, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The plate F is provided above the staple F with outwardly-projecting lugs F spaced apart and adapted to receive the stake 0 between them when the latter is raised to position for use, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and so hold said stakes from displacement in the direction of length of the car. When the stake is released, it may fall and by its connection with the staple F may swing in the direction of length of the car, as Wlll be understood from the drawings.

After the car has been loaded the binders may be applied and secured to hold the same firmly in place. It will be noticed that by extending the binders under the load at the sides of the car the tendency is to bind the car together instead of spreading it, as when the load is simply held between the stakes at the opposite sides of the car.

It will be evident that the invention will be found especially useful in logging-cars, and the hooks and their latch-links in the middle of the binder-sections will facilitate the dumping of the logs, especially when the cars are run down on a slanting or tilted track and it is desired to dump the logs into a mill pond. In such case when the car is at rest the hook at the upper side of the car may be released to permit the logs to roll off into the pond, as desired. When the stakes are released and the logs discharged, the train can be moved forward or back and the stakes being swiveled will not impede the movement of the train, or if the stakes should rest u on a piling or dump-rail they will give bacli in either direction and then drop to the side of the car out of the way.

It will be noticed that by my invention I provide stakes at the side of the car and I also provide means at the opposite side of the car from the stakes for securing the chains which connect with the stakes, this securing means comprising the hooks and detachable connections between the chain lengths, as before described. The stakeplates F being removably held in their kee ers at the sides of the car-bed, permit tie in described of the car-bed, the hooks at the opposite sides thereof and provided with shanks, keepers secured to the car-bed for said hook-shanks, the stakes, the stake-plates having staples to which the stakes are secured and provided above said staples with outwardly-projecting lugs adapted to receive their respective stakes between them, keepers secured to the carbed' for said stakeplates, and binders connected at their ends with their respective stakes and engaged between their ends with hooks at the opposite sides of the car from said stakes and having between said hooks latch-hooks, and means for securing and releasing the same, all sub stantially as and for the pur ose set forth.

2. In a log-binder for caredsastake combined with a stake-plate to which the stake is swiveled at its lower end, and lugs projecting outwardly from the plate above the connection of the stake therewith and adapted to receive the stake between them, and means connected with the stake above the lugs whereby to hold the stake between the lugs, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with the car having the outwardly-facing hooks and stakes at the opposite sides of the car, of a binder secured to the stakes and extending thence across the car and engaged with the hooks at the opposite sides of the car, substantially as set forth.

4. A car having at its opposite sides stakes arranged in pairs and provided with outwardly-facing hooks between the said stakes, and binders secured at their ends to the stakes at the other side of the car and eX- tending thence across the car and engaging with the outwardly-facing hooks at the opposite sides of the car, as 'set forth.

5. A car platform or bed having transverse upwardly-projecting beams, stakes at the sides of the car and outwardly-facing hooks at the opposite sides of the carbed from their respective stakes, and load-binders connected at their ends with the stakes at the same side of the car and extending thence across the car-body and engaging with the hooks at the opposite side of the car-bed, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination with a car-bed, of a keeper secured thereto, a stake-plate fitting reniovably to the keeper and provided at its upper end with outwardly-projecting lugs, and a stake swiveled to the stake-plate below said lugs and adapted to turn up between the same, substantially as described.

CHARLES M. FUNK. Witnesses:

F. W. THOMAS, B. H. Rironns. 

